Mary Wollstonecraft : a very short introduction

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. First of new genus

2. The making of a feminist

3. Educator

4. Political thinker

5. Romantic

6. Reintroducing Mary Wollstonecraft

"Mary Wollstonecraft is widely hailed as the mother of modern feminism. The book that made her famous, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, is a work of worldwide renown. Yet the scope of her achievement as a thinker and writer reaches far beyond this text. She wrote on a wide variety of topics and in a range of literary forms, some of which she created herself. This Very Short Introduction by Emma Clery examines the conditions for Wollstonecraft's emergence as a feminist, but also at her status as an educator, a political thinker, and a romantic. The author also considers the reception of Mary Wollstonecraft over two centuries, and argues that readers need to look at her gamut of activities anew in the 21st century. E.J. Clery is Professor in the Department of English Literature at the Uppsala University. Her books include Women's Gothic from Clara Reeve to Mary Shelley among others"